South Korea Gets 2018 Winter Olympics

[ShibbOleth]

@HazelNutCoffee

It’s a lovely area but it is going to have to do a lot of shaping up in terms of tourism. The only decent accommodation we could find there (we visited in spring) were for huge groups of people (like for company retreats). Plenty of seedy “love motels” though.

I stayed at a seedy “love motel” when I was in one of the Korean cities for the World Cup, for a couple of nights. It was kind of funny, although I got no love at all. I think you had to bring your own partner.

[Leaper]

@ElvisL1ves

The winter sports are all coordinated to the northern winter. Sure, the indoor sports could be held anywhere, but the outdoor ones would have to be held in July or August in the south, and that would totally bollocks up everybody’s schedule. That’s when winter athletes rest and train, and it would screw up their sports something fierce if they had to somehow be at their peak at a different part of the calendar.

What about the winter athletes from the Southern Hemisphere? Do they train as if they were in the Northern?

[ElvisL1ves]

The ones at the top level DO train and compete in the North.

[Tom_Tildrum]

@ShibbOleth

I stayed at a seedy “love motel” when I was in one of the Korean cities for the World Cup, for a couple of nights. It was kind of funny, although I got no love at all. I think you had to bring your own partner.

I’ll bet the hotel would have been happy to rent you one.

[zamboniracer]

A winter olympics in the summer would make the NHL happy. Its players wouldn’t have to miss any league games.

[Gatopescado]

Crap! If I have my way, that’ll be my kids first shot at the games. I don’t want to go to Korea!

Lets hope for a better pick for 22.